The distinctions and controversies of net neutrality

A new wiki sorts out network neutrality's signal and noise.

Network neutrality draws the kind of zealous attention that activists
like me have been hoping for years we’d get for Internet policy. I
don’t think any cyber-issue has ever excited as much interest among
the general public. Nor, unfortunately, has any been described in so
many confusing and inconsistent ways.

Check the table of contents to get a sense of why polemics over
“network neutrality” get so tangled up. The term can mean at least
half a dozen different things, and there is just as much variety in
the practices that it’s supposed to stop. So far as I know, this wiki
is the first disciplined attempt to distinguish the various threads.

The next step is up to you. The wiki just digs down one or two levels,
and can benefit from lots of alternative viewpoints. It should also
have more references. The license
on the wiki is pretty permissive about copying and reuse, and I’ll
be happy to donate my contributions to any other worthy project. I ask
you to help me moderate it to cut down on the all-too-common
rhetorical tricks that muddy the issues instead of delineating them. I
know that many philosophical positions and intriguing proposals are
hard to fit within the existing format of the wiki, and I think those
positions and proposals need to be outlined elsewhere. Let’s try to
make the wiki rich but brief.